It’s a minor complaint compared to others, but Medaka Box, really? Out of all characters in that series, they vote in a minor character instead of the titular girl herself?
Medaka is effectively distilled essence of Haruhi Suzumiya herself, with none of her redeeming traits. She’s an entertaining character, but I could easily see her being hated.

My number one is easily Masuzu Natsukawa from Oreshura. She’s so utterly despicable that I could barely stand to watch the anime after the first few episodes. She’s borderline evil with some of the pranks she pulls and her utterly cruel treatment of Chiwa.

A lot of the heroines on this list have some very loveable characteristics, but Masuzu is probably one of the few I’ve seen which had almost no redeeming qualities.

haruhi is the biggest bitch that i have ever seen, and I also have really bad memories with akabe tendo from ranma 1/2 and narusegawa from love hina. mashiro was an innocent autist I don’t know why is she there

i’ve thought back on anime’s that i’ve watched and the only one that really sticks out is the main chick from love hina. it’s been years since i’ve seen it, but i think she realized it was him from their little childhood promise, and still treats him like a piece of shit. that’s all i can think of. i omitted any heroines from shows that i didn’t enjoy, because for me to hate the character i have to care about the show.

What no Sakura Haruno? She was a useless loudmouth downer that can’t fight anyone without someone to bail her out. Oh and she did need Sasori’s grandma to help her beat Sasori so dont consider that a victory of her own merit.

Before the 3 year skip yeah she was bad but after she became a much better character. She is not as likely to win a fight since most of her training hasn’t been in combat but rather in the medical field so she will always be weaker in combat then someone who trains specifically in combat.

WTF? Where are the real ones that everybody hate, where is Kirino and Haruhi, and others ones, and why Ranka Lee is there too, i cant see how to hate her, only the movies of Macross Frontier i can hate.

And my personal number one, would be Misaka Mikoto, although that may be because of her fandom more than anything. I guess I feel like her popularity overshadows girls I feel are more sexy/interesting in Index/Railgun.

I couldn’t bring myself to watch the last few episodes of Evol but you’re right about Zessica. Mikono has her ups and downs, with too many downs for a lead character, but Zessica was all right.

Funny thing about Index/Railgun — Academy City has lots and lots of great secondary characters, like Kanzaki, Himegami, Fukiyose, the Mikasa imoutos, Laura Stuart, Tsuchimikado Maika, Yomikawa, Lucia, Kiyama-sensei, Kongou Mitsuko, Oriana Thompson, and of course, the most glorious Orsola Aquinas (not to mention the wondrous Saten-san as she’s not a secondary character).

I think it’s to Mikoto’s credit that she stands tall in this crowded field as I can’t help but feel that Index is overshadowed by the company she keeps.

This one was rather confusing. I never give lists like this credence, but this one in particular started off like “Hmm, yeah I guess I can see how she might… yeah, her too I gue- wait, what? Her? What!? And her? Why in the hell? WHAT HAPPENED HERE!??”

Notice how pretty much literally none of these characters are tsundere? (unless you want to include Asuna, but she was only tsun for like 5% of the series). While I can agree 100% with the top choice, tsundere is the reigning archetype in Japan.
Everyone loves a good tsundere; especially when the character isn’t even tsundere, she’s just a bitch.

You kidding? Kirino is the most obnoxious bitch of them all. Never understood why she was popular. Sure, Ruri is obvious fetish material, but at least her social interactions are somewhat realistic. Manami is a bitch? Really, now? Really?

All this is nice but why the stupid comment revealing what happens in the story? There are a lot of people who have obviously read the damn thing but who were able to make a post without revealing anything. Keep it to yourself and grow the fuck up.

Yeah, even for Sankaku this is a pretty shit “survey”. I can kinda understand if it was from females since the majority of these characters have extremely large male fanbases but if this was taken from both genders then it’s complete bullshit.
Also, where is Haruhi Suzumiya? Out of any anime over the years, she struck me as the most hateable.

Judging from my first impression of her, I originally disliked Shiina for her personality flaw; she was the most useless person in the entire world of useless people. I mean you’d have to have a severe mental handicap to not be able to put on your own clothes and tie your own shoelaces. Does she actually get better later on?

Savant syndrome is a condition in which a person with serious mental disabilities, including autistic disorder, demonstrates profound and prodigious capacities and/or abilities far in excess of what would be considered normal.

Savant skills are usually found in one or more of five major areas: art, musical abilities, calendar calculation, mathematics and spatial skills.[1] 50% of savants have autism; the other 50% often have psychological disorders.

I worked with a man at an NSA facility that threw temper tantrums, rolling on the floor screaming. He was given an apartment close by the facility that someone could go get him for work, because he would forget. He was a super-genius in mathematics, and would spend hours smiling and laughing describing hypersurfaces to me in n-dimensions.

It could have more to do with being an abuse victim in the past than autism, really.

Using automotive comparisons, Mashiro and Ryuunosuke are people having a low gear ratio, as opposed to Sorata and Nanami.

Mashiro, facing a range of possibilities with a few locally and arbitrarily ‘correct’ ways and measures, lets the more dangerous and expansive people have their way with them, so that they are happy and thus ‘disarmed’. So it’s not that she can’t do it, she’s just being low-level customizable so that she can focus on the complex issues.

You can tell, because it’s only easy and cute stuff that she’s meant to need help with. We don’t hear anybody has to help her in the toilet, because it would be quite a turn-off.

Nobody complains about surgeons needing help with their clothes, and for a Mashiro you get multiple times more Nakamuras eager to help out.

No, Lovecraft fans with a sense of humor love Nyaruko. Hating on Nyaruko if you’re a Lovecraft fan is like at Star Trek conventions when everyone bullies that one guy that wore a Darth Vader costume for fun. It’s one of those “chill out, it’s funny” things.

Plus, the show was intended for Lovecraft fans (or at least people with some Lovecraft knowledge) anyway. Otherwise it’s just not funny. There’s nothing amusing about Nyarlathotep’s human persona being portrayed as a bubbly female if you don’t even know who Nyarlathotep is.

Nyaruko-san anime actually did alot of work on the whole Lovecraftian lore to ensure that fans who knows Lovecraft would get a chuckle out of the whole thing. I think there are just as many Lovecraft fans who found the anime amusing as there are those who hated it.

I still need to watch through both series (I’m really behind the past couple anime seasons), but I’m guessing Shiina’s hated for being a useless lump who probably can’t even go to the bathroom without assistance (and not through some justifiable disability, but sheer ignorance which pushes “incompetent foreigner” to the utmost extreme). And I guess Nyaruko gets hate for being overly clingy (though, if I can assume the series is anything like the web shorts, then I gotta say that the way Mahiro deals with her is priceless, with male tsundere being something we could really stand to see more of)… though Anon 5:31 makes a good point too.

I swear to God, I disagree with more than half of this list and most of what’s left are from shows I have never seen. Honestly, how in the hell did Nyaruko get on this list, she’s fantastic. And Tsukuyomi from Gintama’s great too. Frankly, this comment would get way too long if I were to voice all of my complaints.

I hate CLAMP because all their works are mediocre, because clamp is a bunch of mediocre fujoshis that can’t do anything by themselves so they have to collaborate to make their mangas and animes.
In card captor sakura they mix cute-but-annoying little girls, tons of sugar, magic, and gay male characters. And I hate the resulting product.
In blood-c they destroyed the blood universe and they made what I think was impossible; they managed to piss the audience in a way that made them wish to kill the main character since first chapter were aired.
In chobits they tried to make a funny shonen with a little fanservice, and they made a boring love story between an onanist guy and his onahole.
I could keep writing bad things about CLAMP for days, but I have to kill a bear for breakfast.

Parasites need hosts. Since battling other bursters is a zero-sum game and the points are spent often, the setting-affirming pragmatist would spend her time developing mass tactics to efficiently gather points and experience from renewable sources. Works in-game and outside, and since a different avatar means different modes of access to the entire experience, so other bursters are co-researchers and important sources of information and ability foremost, and not something to be scavenged upon.

And yet they hardly ever mention fighting ‘the enemy’.

Besides, a brain burst TOOL, without the primitive game paradigm, would at the least be a useful alternative to have. She’s not even thinking about that.

Kuroyukihime is a shocker, but personally I find it more shocking that Manami’s on the list over Kirino (considering they’re both from the same series). For that matter, this list seems to be disgustingly void of pretty much any tsundere characters, ESPECIALLY of the Kugimiya variety (I really hope people aren’t being afraid to hate on Zero no Tsukaima’s main in light of… certain recent events).

I guess while I’m at it, I’ll post my other thoughts on this list:
-The full list only goes up to 29. Why? I have no clue, but Sankaku really could’ve been arsed to post those last four. For those wondering, the bottom four are as follows.
26. Akari Akaza (YuruYuri)
27. Persia Hayami (Magical Fairy Persia)
28. Hajime Kunihiro (Saki)
29. Momoko Touyoko (Saki)

-For that matter, 29th place…. um, what? Aside from arguably not being a heroine (heroines are mains, aren’t they? Or is the term now being broadened to include “any female character”?), Stealth Momo seems like one of the most popular girls in Saki (and with good reason, she’s quite nifty).
-#10… Muginami (and her awesome tits) were among the few things that made Lagrange worth watching. It’s one thing for Madoka (the Lagrange Madoka) and Ran to constantly own her in popularity, but to hear she’s outright hated, that pisses me off.
-#22, same with Stealth Momo, does Shiraume actually count as a “heroine”. Otherwise, I won’t argue that she doesn’t belong here; she just seems like your token excuse for a light novel harem protagonist to get his standard (and often pitiable) “this isn’t what it looks like” beatings (in a series otherwise devoid of such an overused trope… probably ’cause he gets beat up enough just trying to get dinner). However, while it doesn’t make her character any more likable, I am a little amused by the additional irony that she’s not even tsundere for him; she’s instead fawning over one of the girls in his harem. Stands to make her just a little more unique (though why do I get the feeling that later novel volumes might say otherwise and she actually is part of said harem?).
-#23… I’ll be honest, I kinda have it out for Hartmann ever since she snatched Tenshi’s spot in Saimoe’s Best 8 (which had to happen to her for the second year in a row and during possibly her last time competing). But to be fair, that’s really more of a fandom thing and should have little to no influence on the official tidings of her character. Still, even within her respective series, I find her to be nothing special (especially within an ensemble cast with 10 other main characters), alright at best.

A lot of weird choices on this list. And as you point out, some fairly minor characters. I thought Shiraume was actually kind of sweet, once you got past the insane violence. Of course, her actions were par for the course in that show so it’s disappointing to see that all these voters couldn’t get past it.

Not sure I can hate any heroines. I like many of the characters on this list a lot, including KYH, Nyaruko, Chitanda, Konoe and others. I am more prone to hate a show than the heroines of it. I may not think much of them but that doesn’t really translate into hate.

Perhaps Sarah McDougal from Love Hina but she was just an annoying minor character, not a heroine in any sense. Or maybe the appallingly voiced character in Little Busters, Fuko from Clannad, or Sakurako from Yuru Yuri. More hating to hear them or see them than hating them as they were bound to drag the story into the muck.

I was literally going to make my first comment on this website to say what you just said. But now I am just going to say thank you for saying what was on my mind. But what’s more amazing to me is that anybody else from that same series was put on this list before Kirino.

I can pretty much simply agree with the #1 on the list… most of the drama in the show centered around her being too socially fucked to actually express emotions; as well as the protagonist being too dense to understand that Nanami pretty much blatantly confessed to him quite a number of times.

Yeah but thats normal for anime, the protagonist is always blind or stupid as hell when it comes to noticing a girl likes him, its called the Donkon protagonist. See http://vndb.org/g505 for info. Pretty much *EVERY* anime’s main male char fits that, especally in visual novels.

Yeah, this is true; but that doesn’t excuse Mashiro from being one of the most ridiculously boring female protagonists in recent memory. It’s like if Haruhi had Nagato Yuki as the protagonist; minus the whole, being an alien who has fighting capabilities, characters who barely talk are boring. I mean, at least sometimes the main character is an idiot, but at least they aren’t assholes like Kanda Sorata.
I am so incredibly glad that shitfest is over.

“I LOVE YOU MASHIRO!”
*train passes*
“I am sad.”
*cut to image of Mashiro painting in a room*
5 episodes earlier.
“Ah fuck, Mashiro is being a bitch who can’t even figure out how to wear panties! I hate Mashiro duty!”
*cut to Jin being a dick to Misaki*
*cut to Nanami being a poorly-executed tsundere character*
*cut to final episode*
“Yep, there are more characters; don’t count on a second season though.”
*Mashiro kisses Sorata… on the cheek*
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